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Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.
Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:05PM
Please do, just wait until I'm across the border.
K. Just remember though, no fair running to Canada because it is far too white for you to signal your commitment to Diversity. Go to Mexico or somewhere brown or black... if you can get in, they don't just let anybody in you know. They might not want you, just sayin'. They have something called a border and they enforce it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 18 2016, @04:10AM
I find it very telling that the only kind of people who say "virtue signalling" unironically are those who have no virtue whatsoever to begin with. My only reaction to just about everything you post in response to be is, and can only be, "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!"
You poor bastard, you have no idea what you and your kind are in for. You've been played, AGAIN, by the same people who've had the same agenda for half a century. And you like it. Un-bloody-believable. Well, enjoy your trip to Hell :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @01:10PM
I don't think that people are going to sit still if it turns out the way you suppose. The best thing the 1% could do for themselves is to acquiesce to reform; if they fight it or subvert it like usual, all will come to blows.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 18 2016, @04:17AM
Oh, incidentally, I intend to go to Vancouver, which is about 25% ethnic Chinese last I checked. Which is nowhere near as much as my hometown Flushing, but will feel nicely familiar and will help my girlfriend (Cantonese by way of Malaysia) adjust easier. You were trying to say something about diversity...? God, you fail even when you think you have a point.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @01:13PM
Vancouver is a great city, but Canada is too close. A lot of people who didn't like the way things were going in Germany fled to Poland or France thinking they'd be safe. If America were to blow up in the same way, there's hardly any place in the world that would be truly safe, but Canada would definitely be wiped out by the initial blast. Try Australia or New Zealand.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 18 2016, @05:28PM
Australia isn't any safer, as they seem to be competing with Britain for who can become a fascist surveillance state fastest. New Zealand is also on my list, though. There's always the teach English in Japan route, though I do worry that if China gets salty I'll just end up eating a nuke if go there. Ditto South Korea, plus I can barely read Hangul. Ugh, the entire planet's gone insane...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @06:19PM
Oh, the classic "I have a minority friend so I'm not racis" ploy... :D
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 20 2016, @11:46PM
Know where I feel weird? Here in southern Wisconsin. Being surrounded by white people feels bizarre. It'll be a relief to go somewhere more familiar-seeming. You would think this would put to rest once and for all the idea that we're born racists.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...